History Manga / KarateShoukoushiKohinataMinoru

** Done realistically with Minoru and his past as a gymnast: when he joins the Second Karate Club his body is already ''exceptionally'' conditioned in a well-balanced way, as needed of a gymnast, and it also gave him great agility and a formidable grip on the mat, [[DifficultYetAwesome allowing him to pull effectively acrobatic moves that would otherwise be utterly ineffective]] and making him almost impossible to ruin his balance even when he's on the toe of a single foot.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Minoru is occasinally referred to as Kohinata Kairyuu, which is a more common way of saying the kanji in his name.

* DualTonfas: Used by Minami in his fight with Saizou.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Enough for [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome/KarateShoukoushiKohinataMinoru its own page]].

* MagicSkirt: Averted. Haruka's short fight with Mutou is particularly noteworthy: once she starts kicking, pretty much every other panel has a PantyShot.

* {{Meganekko}}: Akiko Takakura, of the naginata club. She's much more dangerous with her glasses ''off'', since she loses the ability to control her strikes.

''Karate Shoukoushi Kohinata Minoru'' ("Young Karate Prince Kohinata Minoru") is a {{seinen}} sports manga written and illustrated by Yasushi Baba. The manga ran in ''Weekly Young Magazine'' from 2000 to 2012 for 500 chapters, and was compiled into 50 volumes.

''Karate Shoukoushi Kohinata Minoru'' ("Young Karate Prince Kohinata Minoru") is a {{seinen}} sports manga written and illustrated by Yashushi Baba. The manga ran in ''Weekly Young Magazine'' from 2000 to 2012 for 500 chapters, and was compiled into 50 volumes.

''Karate Shoukoushi Kohinata Minoru''[[labelnote:Trans.]]Young Karate Prince Kohinata Minoru[[/labelnote]] is the story of Kohinata Minoru, a freshman at Reinan University, a school renowned for its numerous and formidable sports teams, who is the official PersonaNonGrata of the gymnastics club. Holding him responsible for their lost spot in the latest competition selection, his seniors have kicked him out of the club, and continue to bully him over his friendship with Misaki Nana, the club belle.

The series lasted for 50 Volumes, ending in 2010.

In 2012 a sequel started, called '''''Karate Shoukoushi Monogatari'''''.

** Kasumi Saizou, as the last and proud descendant of a long line of ninja, is by far the dirtiest fighter in the series. As in, [[spoiler:he'll coat his hair into a tear-inducing substance to prevent grappling and ''breath fire in the middle of a match'']]. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome He's disqualified during his first (and last) pro match]].

** Just compare [[http://www.mangareader.net/1079-44114-2/karate-shoukoushi-kohinata-minoru/chapter-29.html this]] [[ShirtlessScene shirtless Minoru]] to [[http://www.mangareader.net/karate-shoukoushi-kohinata-minoru/179/18 this one]].

* TheCameo: One of the guys in [[http://www.mangareader.net/karate-shoukoushi-kohinata-minoru/74/6 this crowd]] looks like [[Anime/MazingerZ Kabuto Koji]]. [[http://www.mangareader.net/karate-shoukoushi-kohinata-minoru/121/13 In here]] we have one who looks like [[Manga/GetterRobo Nagare Ryoma]]. [[http://www.mangareader.net/karate-shoukoushi-kohinata-minoru/122/12 And here,]] someone from ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam''. [[http://www.mangareader.net/karate-shoukoushi-kohinata-minoru/130/13 And here]] we have [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Amuro Ray and Bright Noa]]. Baba probably really loves ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars''... Also, [[Franchise/DragonBall Vegeta]] can be seen [[http://www.mangareader.net/karate-shoukoushi-kohinata-minoru/178/12 here]].
** There's actually a heck of a lot of cameos in crowd scenes.

* NotSoDifferent: Akkiko is a lot like her brother then she likes to admit when Minami and Noizomi broke up due to a misunderstanding. Instead of telling Noizomi what actually happened they both instead tried to find dirt on the other party.

* {{Transgender}}: Alyosha Harchenko.

** Kasumi Saizou, as the last and proud descendant of a long line of ninja, is by far the dirtiest fighter in the series. As in, [[spoiler:he'll coat his hair into a tear-inducing substance to prevent grappling and ''breath fire in the middle of a match'']]. [[RealityEnsues He's disqualified during his first (and last) pro match]].

* RealityEnsues: Enough for [[RealityEnsues/KarateShoukoushiKohinataMinoru its own page]].

* MartialArtsAndCrafts: Iskandar LLC is a motion picture creative group that specializing in producing martial arts porn films.

* MegatonPunch: The [[OverlyLongName Takakura-Ryu Ultimate Mystery Optical-Magnetized Light Vacuum Fist]]. Downplayed in that it doesn't send the victim flying, it's just ridiculously powerful.

* RealityEnsues:
** Haruka's use of Taekwondo - a martial art with a very high focus on kicking - while wearing a miniskirt leads to [[PantyShot Panty Shots]] galore. In the same scene, she also makes sure to remove her high-heeled boots before she starts kicking: high heels are not easy to balance on in real life.
** Yuuya Morisawa, the MMA club captain, makes a big deal of the advantages his versatile fighting style gives over purebred karateka... But he's at most a hobbyist, so when he fights Ibuki, who has been fighting at an elite level in a full contact Karate style, he goes down with one front kick.
** Club summer camps that features TrainingFromHell allows to improve the club members' skills... But if too harsh the club risks losing members. The Second Karate Club's included kumite (that is, sparring) ''every single day'' and at the end of it Minami mentions this is the ''first'' time they don't lose at least one member (and it was a close thing, as Hayama had initially decided to quit as soon as they were back in Tokyo before Rika helped him improve his skills), and the Ninjutsu Club's included "earth escape" and "water escape" training (that is, in the former the members were ''BuriedAlive'' with only a tube to breath until they got out and in the latter they had to stay underwater breathing from a straw and get out without being noticed by the captain) and got quit by ''every single member but the captain''.
** School clubs are an expense for the school's budget and need at least one room to use, so they need a minimum number of members (three at Reinan, including the captain) or ''will'' being disbanded. The Second Karate Club is a minor club that starts out with five members, two of which being recently recruited, and Minami, as the captain, goes out of his way to get Minoru and Pedro to join to not have it disbanded, and when the Ninjutsu Club was reduced to its captain said member became desperate to recruit more members before the two weeks grace period expired and the Hyakubukai reclaimed the clubroom, even [[spoiler:blackmailing Minoru into it]].
** Kaburagi Karate's focus of punching people in the face is considered to be a very unorthodox tactic both in-universe and in reality. Minami explains to Minoru that the bones in human hands are much thinner than the bones making up the skull, the result being that if you were to punch someone in the head without wearing any kind of protective glove, you'd be more likely to injure your hand than your opponent. Subsequently, Kaburagi Ryu punches aim to cause nosebleeds and cuts above the eyes, rather than knock someone out.
*** This is why at the Kaburagi-ryu national tournament Bertrand initially refuses to use his fists, as not only his punches have (literally) bone-breaking power, this is the first time he fights with no gloves and thus his hands are even less protected than the Kaburagi-ryu karatekas, who have at least some training to reinforce them.
** Mutou's early fights with the Judo Club and Minoru's with the Kendo Club were awesome and served to establish them as badasses... But also got a lot of ill will against the Second Karate Club from two of the five clubs on the Hyakubukai board, that controls the various martial arts clubs at Reinan. Thus the moment Kaburagi Ryu is shut down for tax evasion they ''immediately'' take the chance and disband the Second Karate Club on the grounds it was affiliated with Kaburagi Ryu and now can't compete anymore in tournaments.
** In RealLife, Nak Muays can turn pro in their early teens (if not earlier), and can take more fights in a year than fighters from other parts of the world. In the manga, this translates to them often having far more fighting experience than foreigners of similar age.
** Ninjas may be cool in fiction... But no modern parent would want their children going around and actually learning Ninjutsu, feeling it idiotical. The father of Akiko and Hiroshi Takakura gets on his own father's case for doing just that, and once she's in college age Akiko agrees... And considers her brother Hiroshi, AKA Kasumi Saizou, an idiot for ''still'' going on with that (and considering the next entry...).
** During the Shiryuu-kan's tournament, Saizou [[spoiler:BREATHES FIRE IN THE MIDDLE OF A MATCH]] and follows that up by [[spoiler:[[GroinAttack delivering a full body punch in his opponent's nuts]]]]. He's disqualified on the spot, and Tachibana is barely able to keep the team match going by holding the two single matches hostage.
** Perspective Kaburagi-ryu association member Ushio Ippei is quite strong, naturally talented and has some street fighting experience... But as street fights end in just a few blows his stamina is far poorer than an athlete trained for relatively long fights, and his defense and resistance to hits are non-existing compared to that of a full-contact Karate practitioner. When going against Takenaka, the ''weakest'' of the long term association members, he wails on him for three minutes before tiring, at which point Takenaka, whose stamina, defensive techniques and ability to take a hit allow him to still be relatively fresh, drops him with two hits.
** After suffering multiple head blows, three knock downs and a KO in his fight with [[spoiler:Skandalaki]], Minoru is forced to stay completely at rest for over a month before he's even allowed to resume roadwork. Even then, he still suffers from headaches.
** During the GENESIS Tournament, Temur Shirato, the favorite, suffers a surprising amount of damage in the second round of the first match with Minami, including a head wound that nearly made him lose by TKO due heavy bleeding and some serious leg injuries. As this is just the first match and he has previous and more important committments in short order, his trainer throws the towel to protect him.
** To pass GENESIS' 70 kilos weight limit, the 95 kilos Jun Tabuse dehydrated and even ''bled'' himself to drop 25 kilos in two months, and in the single day between the weigh-in and the tournament he pigged himself out and got back to 85. While he has the size advantage against his opponents and swiftly overpowers his first opponent, his stamina is destroyed due a lack of blood, and in some moments he even risks collapsing due to it.
** As a young boy, Izumi was a clumsy yet formidable fighter whose teacher, Kaburagi Juzou, was extremely skilled at finding the weaknesses of an opponent. To move out of his shadow Izumi moved to the Koudan Kaikan's headquarter and started fighting in kickboxing matches with different trainers... And found he had grown too reliant on Kaburagi's directions.
** As the head of the Koudan Kaikan, Izumi finds in Satomi Daichi a fighter similar to how he had been as a youth, clumsy yet talented... And trained him to have overwhelming strength, as his own experience made him doubt of Kaburagi's trickery and make sure that if his ability to disrupt the opponents' rhythm was overcome he'd still have something to fall on.
** When Daichi fights Minami, the latter is being coached by a disguised [[spoiler:Kaburagi Juzou]]. Izumi, [[spoiler:having been his pupil]], recognizes him ''immediately'' purely by his coaching style and [[spoiler:devilish plans]], and the only reason he briefly doubts his findings is that [[spoiler:[[FakingTheDead Kaburagi was supposed to be dead]]]].